Amendments to Public Utility Holding Company Act, 1935: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2643, a Bill to Promote the Common Defense and the General Welfare of the People of the United States by Encouraging Maximum Development of Low-cost Electric Energy from All Sources of Power, Including Atomic Energy, Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, and Water, and for Other PurposesConsiders legislation to exempt electric utilities involved in nuclear power development from SEC regulations. |
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Page 298 - ... conditions under which there will be afforded useful employment opportunities, including self-employment, for those able, willing, and seeking to work, and to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power.
Page 383 - Commission, notwithstanding that such rule, regulation, or order may, after such act or omission, be amended or rescinded or be determined by judicial or other authority to be invalid for any reason.
Page 364 - contribution" includes a gift, subscription, loan, advance, or deposit, of money, or anything of value, and includes a contract, promise, or agreement, whether or not legally enforceable to make a contribution ; (e) The term "expenditure...
Page 298 - With that act, government in theory assumed responsibility for "maximum employment, production, and purchasing power." The policy declaration in the act states: The Congress hereby declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means consistent with its needs and obligations and other...
Page 329 - For the purpose of assuring an abundant supply of electric energy throughout the United States with the greatest possible economy and with regard to the proper utilization and conservation of natural resources...
Page 44 - ... whether owned by one or more electric utility companies, are physically interconnected or capable of physical interconnection and which under normal conditions may be economically operated as a single interconnected and coordinated system confined in its operations to a single area or region, in one or more States, not so large as to impair (considering the state of the art and the area or region affected) the advantages of localized management, efficient operation, and the effectiveness of regulation...
Page 169 - ... detrimental to the carrying out of the provisions of section 11; or (2) the acquisition of securities or utility assets of a publicutility or holding company unless the Commission finds that such acquisition will serve the public interest by tending towards the economical and efficient development of an integrated public-utility system.
Page 127 - ... the development, use, and control of atomic energy shall be directed so as to make the maximum contribution to the general welfare, subject at all times to the paramount objective of making the maximum contribution to the common defense and security ; and a.
Page 391 - ... in the case of the reports of any person whose methods of accounting are prescribed under the provisions of any law of the United States, or any rule or regulation thereunder, the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect to reports shall not be inconsistent with the requirements imposed by such law or rule or regulation in respect of the -same subject matter...
Page 410 - USC 79b (a) (4) ) , to mean a company which owns or operates facilities used for the distribution at retail (other than distribution only in enclosed portable containers, or distribution to tenants or employees of the company operating such facilities for their own use and not for resale) of natural or manufactured gas for heat, light, or power.